Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS I SECTION VIII. 4. INDIRECT POWER


175. Influence -- N. influence; importance &c 642; weight, pressure, preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy † ; ascendency † ; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull [Slang] ; authority &c 737; capability &c (power) 157; effect &c 154; interest.

175a. Absence of Influence -- N. impotence &c 158; powerlessness; inertness &c 172; irrelevancy &c 10.

176. Tendency -- N. tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus [Lat.] , nisus [Lat.] ; liability &c 177; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy † , idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift &c (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement † ; applicability &c (utility) 644; subservience &c (instrumentality) 631.

177. Liability -- N. liability, liableness † ; possibility, contingency; susceptivity † , susceptibility, exposure.